Jolly, K.: Preach Sister, Preach

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Label
Navona
Release Date
August 9, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BODER MACK WILLIAMS
    • PERFORMER
      Jolly, Cole, Mossburg, Johnson-Helms, Bjorkling, Harper
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 09, 2019
    • UPC
      896931005449
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NV6244
    • LABEL
      Navona
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. I Dwell in Possibillity

      Composer: Evan Williams

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    2. No. 2. The Name - Of It - Is "Autumn"

      Composer: Evan Williams

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    3. No. 3. The Bee is Not Afraid of Me

      Composer: Evan Williams

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    4. No. 4. Within My Garden Rides a Bird

      Composer: Evan Williams

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    5. No. 5. These are the Days When Birds Come Back

      Composer: Evan Williams

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    6. No. 6. I'm Nobody! Who are You?

      Composer: Evan Williams

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    7. No. 7. Wild Nights - Wild Nights!

      Composer: Evan Williams

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    8. No. 8. Dawn

      Composer: Evan Williams

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    9. No. 9. Glee! The Great Storm is Over!

      Composer: Evan Williams

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    10. No 10. The Shelter

      Composer: Evan Williams

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    11. Absent an Adjustment

      Composer: Katherine Bodor

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Samantha Johnson-Helms, Christa Cole, Rachel Mossburg, Per Bjørkling

      Conductor: Joshua Harper

    12. No. 1. Simone de Beauvoir

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    13. No. 2. Mae West

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    14. No. 3. Gilda Radner

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    15. No. 4. George Eliot

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    16. No. 5. Lucille Ball

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    17. No. 6. Daphne du Maurier

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    18. No. 7. Lizz Winstead

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    19. No. 8. Leslie Jones

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    20. No. 9. Ann Landers

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    21. No. 10. Gloria Steinem

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    22. No. 11. Natasha Scripture

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    23. No. 12. Lucille Ball

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    24. No. 13. Tina Fey

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua

    25. No. 14. Ellen DeGeneres

      Composer: Evan Mack

      Performer: Katherine Jolly, Emily Yap Chua


PREACH SISTER, PREACH showcases award-winning Katherine Jolly's "agile, bright lyric soprano" voice (The New York Times) on a series of pieces that are distinctively individual in their inspiration while cohesively united by the passions of their composers. Collaborating with pianist Emily Yap Chua, Jolly evokes the passion and curiosity of Emily Dickinson's poetry in Evan Williams' Emily's House, a collection of ten poems in which she communicates the lyrics such that one could imagine the voice being that of the poet's herself. A keen observer, Dickinson used images from nature, religion, and science to probe universal themes: the wonders of the natural world, the identity of the self, death and immortality, and love. Together Jolly and Chua breathe incredible new life into these ideas, delivering a personal and profound performance while transporting modern audiences to another place and time. Jolly turns to inspiration of a more contemporary and crucial nature on Absent an Adjustment in which her voice, ominous and purposeful, floats above and around the strings, frequently in a dissonant duet with the clarinet, heightening the intense spirit of the piece. The acrobatic coloratura vocal line, use of repeated motives and text, combined with the highly rhythmic ensemble in Katherine Bodor's Absent an Adjustment, support it's message of urgency in the face of ecological disaster. Acclaimed composer Evan Mack was inspired by the energy of the first women's march to craft Preach Sister, Preach, a song cycle which explores and celebrates the voices of ten powerful women such as Lucille Ball, Mae West, Simone de Beauvoir, Tina Fey, and Ellen DeGeneres. The intricate collaboration of Jolly and Chua succinctly portrays the power of the quotes from these women and, in doing so, offers both musical and lyrical insights into the women themselves.